- Louise Contat
Louise-Françoise Contat (
16 June 1760 –9 March 1813 ) was a French actress.She was born in Paris and made her debut at the
Comédie Française in 1766 as Atalide in "Bajazet ". It was in comedy, however, that she made her first success, as Suzanne in Beaumarchais's "Mariage de Figaro"; and in several minor character parts, which she raised to the first importance, and as the "soubrette " in the plays ofMolière andPierre de Marivaux , she found opportunities exactly fitted to her talents.Career
Bouillet writes of her "She played comedy to perfection and made people remark on the flexibility of her talent, succeeding equally as grandes coquettes and as soubrettes". [Bouillet ref] She was part of the success of the plays of
Marivaux and Beaumarchais. She left the theatre in 1808, and in 1809 married de Parny, nephew of the poetÉvariste de Parny .Her sister
Marie Emilie Contat (1769-1846), an admirable "soubrette", especially as the pert servant drawn by Molière and de Regnard, made her debut in 1784, and retired, in 1815.External links
* [http://cesar.org.uk/cesar2/people/people.php?fct=edit&person_UOID=309524 Louise Contat and her rôles] on CESAR
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